TY  - JOUR
AU  - Prescott, Tony J.
AU  - Vogeley, Kai
AU  - Wykowska, Agnieszka
TI  - Understanding the sense of self through robotics
JO  - Science robotics
VL  - 9
IS  - 95
SN  - 2470-9476
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - AAAS
M1  - FZJ-2025-00793
SP  - eadn2733
PY  - 2024
AB  - Robotics can play a useful role in the scientific understanding of the sense of self, both through the construction of embodied models of the self and through the use of robots as experimental probes to explore the human self. In both cases, the embodiment of the robot allows us to devise and test hypotheses about the nature of the self, with regard to its development, its manifestation in behavior, and the diversity of selves in humans, animals, and, potentially, machines. This paper reviews robotics research that addresses the topic of the self—the minimal self, the extended self, and disorders of the self—and highlights future directions and open challenges in understanding the self through constructing its components in artificial systems. An emerging view is that key phenomena of the self can be generated in robots with suitably configured sensor and actuator systems and a layered cognitive architecture involving networks of predictive models.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - 39475697
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001344950000001
DO  - DOI:10.1126/scirobotics.adn2733
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1037622
ER  -